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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 07:45:25 -0400
From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>
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Subject: Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin
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On 5/17/2010 12:44 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 17/05/2010 16:44, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>> "The permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered, which may cause some
>> entries to be ineffective."
>
>> Does anyone have any ideas how to avoid this issue?  Does anyone have an
>> explanation as to what is going on here?  Thanks in advance.
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping
>
>    Basic answer is: They're meant to be in that order, ignore windows'
> complaints, and don't let it "fix" them for you.
>

OK, thanks.   So, any reason why it would make emacs change the 
permissions on existing files?   In my cygwin directory my windows 
cygwin changes the permissions of existing files to be rwxrwxrwx, which 
is giving me grief with git.


-Bill

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